Hoosier Airman Reflects on POW Experience at Grissom
Air Force Col. Ronald E. Byrne Jr says his seven and a half years as a prisoner in North Vietnam will not be wasted and plans to be ahead in two to three years. He discusses POW information exchanges, survival school reforms, and limited language learning while noting efforts to withhold details of prison life.
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Kasler Finds Mixed Feelings on Protesters at Welcome Home
Indianapolis honors Col. James H. Kasler, a POW with 85 Vietnam missions, who says he feels both contempt for antiwar demonstrators and compassion for veterans who lost pride in being American. Gov. Bowen and Mayor Lugar praise POWs as the crowd lauds their return.
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McCord Offered Plea Reduction in Watergate Probe Denied
Washington AP reports chief prosecutor Earl Silbert offered James W. McCord Jr. two plea reductions in exchange for information on political espionage. McCord refused both times as grand jury probes resume and sentencing for Liddy proceeds.
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Precious painting cut out and stolen in Italy
Police report the central part of a 16th century painting by Girolamo da Romano known as Il Romanino was cut out and stolen from a Brescia church over the weekend. The work depicts Christ being taken down from the cross, with the head and shoulders removed.
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